ENGL 150C
Topics in Shakespeare
Description: Lecture, four hours; discussion, one hour (when scheduled). Enforced requisites: courses 10A, 10B. Introduction to or advancement of student knowledge of Shakespeare's works through broad or specific topics set by instructor. May be repeated for credit with topic or instructor change. P/NP or letter grading.
Units: 5.0
Units: 5.0
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Spring 2018 - I am so glad I took Shakespeare with Professor Dickey. Initially, I was not looking forward to Shakespeare, but Professor Dickey took such a fresh approach to studying Shakespeare's texts! I always thought that Shakespeare's plays were entirely his original creation, but by taking this class, I learned that he ripped off of works of other writers for his plays (*gasp*)! Studying source materials for each Shakespeare play made each text more meaningful and illuminating. Professor Dickey is a well-versed and encouraging instructor. He brings out the best of each Shakespeare text. He is funny without trying. He is always pleasant to his students. I really looked forward to going to this class and would definitely recommend you to take it as well!
Spring 2018 - I am so glad I took Shakespeare with Professor Dickey. Initially, I was not looking forward to Shakespeare, but Professor Dickey took such a fresh approach to studying Shakespeare's texts! I always thought that Shakespeare's plays were entirely his original creation, but by taking this class, I learned that he ripped off of works of other writers for his plays (*gasp*)! Studying source materials for each Shakespeare play made each text more meaningful and illuminating. Professor Dickey is a well-versed and encouraging instructor. He brings out the best of each Shakespeare text. He is funny without trying. He is always pleasant to his students. I really looked forward to going to this class and would definitely recommend you to take it as well!
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Summer 2019 - This was an online class taken over the Summer. Professor Little is an energetic professor that is clearly invested in Shakespeare. His lectures share his own critical perspectives on Shakespeare's major plays. The course itself is very poor. It's organized how you would expect for a summer course: video lectures, board discussions, quizzes, and essays. Though there isn't anything inherently wrong with it, the course is painfully plain. By far the largest issue with the course is the quizzes. Not only are the quizzes timed and monitored through Repondus lockdown browser + webcam à la Big Brother style, the quiz questions are nothing short of BS. According to our "course information" page on CCLE (a sham of a syllabus which this class doesn't have), our assigned readings are annotated versions of Shakespeare's plays. The questions asked on the quizzes, however, involve Shakespearian actor names and loosely related paintings that you might be able to answer correctly if you critically extrapolate from extremely minor and obscure details. Couple with that, the final exam is composed of these quiz questions and have a combined worth of 40% of your total grade. Almost half your grade is reliant on questions that feel less of an examination of your mastery over the subject matter and more of garbage trivia that you could probably look up in a second. All of this is overshadowed by your laptop's monitor and microphone turned on that stares you down making sure you don't cheat (Respondus has an eye tracker). Based on purely the quizzes alone, I cannot recommend this class to anybody.
Summer 2019 - This was an online class taken over the Summer. Professor Little is an energetic professor that is clearly invested in Shakespeare. His lectures share his own critical perspectives on Shakespeare's major plays. The course itself is very poor. It's organized how you would expect for a summer course: video lectures, board discussions, quizzes, and essays. Though there isn't anything inherently wrong with it, the course is painfully plain. By far the largest issue with the course is the quizzes. Not only are the quizzes timed and monitored through Repondus lockdown browser + webcam à la Big Brother style, the quiz questions are nothing short of BS. According to our "course information" page on CCLE (a sham of a syllabus which this class doesn't have), our assigned readings are annotated versions of Shakespeare's plays. The questions asked on the quizzes, however, involve Shakespearian actor names and loosely related paintings that you might be able to answer correctly if you critically extrapolate from extremely minor and obscure details. Couple with that, the final exam is composed of these quiz questions and have a combined worth of 40% of your total grade. Almost half your grade is reliant on questions that feel less of an examination of your mastery over the subject matter and more of garbage trivia that you could probably look up in a second. All of this is overshadowed by your laptop's monitor and microphone turned on that stares you down making sure you don't cheat (Respondus has an eye tracker). Based on purely the quizzes alone, I cannot recommend this class to anybody.
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